Natural Disorder
“Order is Heaven’s first law,” wrote Alexander Pope, and one thing that has surprised me is the significance of clutter to happiness. While positive-psychology researchers rarely address
Gretchen Rubin • Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
As the stadium example illustrated, the present state of a system constrains the possible paths that a system can take, and for a system to travel from disorder to order, many consecutive moves need to be made. Unfortunately, there are fewer paths leading a system from disorder to order than from order to disorder.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Modern humans are doubly disadvantaged. We live in a world of excess but are built for an environment of scarcity. And we have built our economy on exploiting this disconnect. You are not going to think your way out of this dilemma.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
But one thing is for sure: there is a natural tendency for something that is ordered to become disordered as time goes by. In contrast, something that is disordered is highly unlikely to order itself without any additional help.